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Educators on social media appear deeply divided over the utility of homework. Many question whether the assignments still serve a clear academic purpose in a post-pandemic landscape, while others ...

Chelsea was in 10th grade the first time I told her directly to stop doing her homework and get some sleep. I had been working with her since she was in middle school, treating her anxiety disorder.

Clarification: This story has updated to give a more precise estimate of the portion of teachers who say they do not assign homework at all. Questions over how much homework schools should assign are ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...